European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poised for academic Eminence 3 g d n d new York times Zigy Kaluzny administrator Jim Green with a Model for an Experiment at fusion research Center of the University of by William Stevens new York times to millions of the scene at aus tin recently was what the University of Texas is All students by the striding resolutely in their cutoffs and jeans and longhorn Orang and filtered Down across the Green slopes and past the live Oaks that adorn one of the most Coily Beautiful campuses in the they headed for memorial in some eyes the University chief Monument and another dressed in the red colors of the University of Houston advanced from the other by when a huge stadium Gate opened like the portcullis of a Castle to admit the longhorn band in fringed jackets and White Cowboy and the eyes of Texas thundered across the nearly texans filled the towering stands in a throbbing spectacle thoroughly familiar to anyone who follows big time College football on but these Days there is a lot More than that to the University of at its backers and leaders it is on the verge of in the words of the mandate Given it by the Texas a University of the first a respected  institution ranking with the nations greatest and As the University prepares for a two year Cele bration of its some feel that it is poised to make the same kind of leap to academic Eminence that the University of California at Berkeley made after world War what makes such a leap it is widely is income from stat owned Oil lands in the permian Basin of West Texas is growing so rapidly that the University endowment is expected to nearly to in this that would enable Texas to replace Harvard As the wealthiest University in the it also would enable As the University is to invest in the research facilities and programs that attract scholars who have built and maintained the reputations of older universities at a time when Many such universities in the North Are facing not but a severe financial a Straw in the is the fact that the University was recently Able to commit million in endowment proceeds to secure for it a Federal Institute for research in fusion Many others had sought the including the Massachusetts Institute of new York University and the University of California at los an at the same Marshall a world re owned plasma was wooed away from Prince and Steven Weinberg of a Nobel prize Winner in was recruited As a visiting professor it is eventually a permanent faculty a says Norman a former it pres ident who now Heads Rice is that Texas has prepared itself to push into a whole variety of frontiers in theoretical in Hacker ans the University of Texas now a Good enough faculty physical Plant and student body to make that final leap into the academic front rank in the its got All the he various ratings place such University programs As Lin business and Law among the nations with it has the country fourth arg est single Campus student behind the big ten universities of Michigan Ohio state the it produces More doctoral graduates than any other University in the its volume Library is ninth largest in the it boasts elegant literary and Art collections and a Plant considered one of the not even its most ardent boosters contend that it has become a firs class its a Good but not yet a great Hacker Man said from his special some texans feel this for despite the states growing wealth and despite its status As third most populous it has not exactly won respect As a major intellectual in the past the University seemed to be on the verge of moving into the top class but somehow fell Peter the University is among those who believe that if it does not make the leap its Best Chance for greatness May slip away forever As the West Texas Oil runs there Are considerable not the least of them the fact that other stat supported schools Are casting envious eyes on the permanent University the Oil fuelled now standing at billion and expected to reach billion by the University of Texas gets two thirds of the and the other third goes to Texas the states main teen Mai ships9 whistles running out of steam by Tom Crane associated press the deep throated cry from a ships steam whistle is one sound of the seas that fading fast into a victim of the Energy crunch and the shift from steam to diesel and nostalgic Marine buffs dont like in they say the new electric and compressed air whistles being installed on ships As fuel saving measures have the sound of a Moo cow Unbe fitting luxury liners and sturdy oceangoing the steam whistle is going the Way of the buggy said Jesse president of the Marine engineers beneficial the Best air whistle is like listening to music on the whereas a steam whistle is like listening to music on theres no Calhoon compared the new ships whistles to the Moo cow sound of the first diesel he said objections from the Public eventually led to new train whistles that nearly duplicated the steam whistles they but that has not happened at the november Issue of the american Marine Engi a monthly newspaper published by Calhoon lamented the downfall of the steam say ing the newer whistles May save fuel but cannot compete with steam for Range or harmonic a colourful part of Ocean shipping since Robert Ful tons Clermont plied the Hudson River is being driven from the seas by the Energy the article it reported that two Matson navigation Container ships under construction in the Kauai and the were being equipped with electric the article said whistles would be converted on other Matson january 1981 ships because steam whistles used up too much Matson senior vice estimated a steam whistle required 300 barrels of Oil per and Al president of a tugboat Union in new York recalled that a tug he once worked had to Stop her engine when she whistled because of the drop in boiler Calhoon explained that economics forced ship makers to Start outfitting new ships with diesel engines instead of effectively putting an end to the steam whistle he estimated a diesel powered ship used Mil lion a year less in fuel than a similar steam he said most nations already have abandoned and America is following Calhoon likened himself to an old Farmer who re Ive seen a lot of changes in my and Ive been agin pm the stars and stripes Page 13